What is the dynamic at play here? What is Shanes instinct telling him about Fulton in general?
Shane wants to help his wife. And this Fulton guy likes Shane for a bunch of different reasons, which puts Shane in the position to help his wife. But it means giving her up even more than he already has. So as Lou and Fulton start doing business together, Shane sees Lou less and less, gets sucked into Sam’s world more and more, and the contrast of those two worlds starts tearing him up. Partying in a Pac Heights mansion one night and hanging out in a one-bedroom apartment in the projects the next. Shane knows Fulton is bad news, although he thinks that bad news is mostly harmless. So Fulton likes to drink, do drugs, flaunt his money, go slumming in strip clubs and bad neighborhoods, so what? Shane can hang out, do a little partying, which he doesn’t mind, he’s a guy’s guy like that, and help out his wife along the way? Good deal, he thinks. How does David Fulton personify the greed of the dot-com invaders and their attitude toward success at any cost? Fulton is actually extraordinary,
